Supplier Review: Scottish Power | Energy Solutions

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Founded in 1990, Scottish Power is one of the largest energy companies in Scotland. It was made as part of the privatisation of the electricity industry. ScottishPower generated and supplied the majority of power in Scotland and in 1995 completed the acquisition of Manweb. This led ScottishPower into the water industry, with a purchase of Southern Water. 

Today, ScottishPower has an emphasis on green, renewable energy. They were the first energy company to generate 100% green electricity in the UK. ScottishPower shifted from gas and coal generation to wind power, selling their gas and coal business to Drax for £702m. This included a £5.2bn plan to invest in renewable energy within 4 years to homes across the UK. This number has risen to £7bn in 2020.  
  
ScottishPower employs over 6,000 employees currently, with 207 staff currently in training. Under the Iberdrola umbrella, Iberdrola is the worlds leading producer of wind energy. The UK accounted for 15.9% of the sales in 2019, with over 5.5m euros. 

Transmission Network 
  
ScottishPower is the main supplier for electricity in Central and Southern Scotland, taking power from wind farms and power stations, then transporting it across the country via their extensive transmission network. 
  
Their network is made up of over 3700km of overhead lines and over 600km of cables underground.  
 
Distribution Network 
 
With enough substations for 1 in 100 customers, 40000km of overhead lines and over 60000km of underground cables, ScottishPower counts for 1.6m customers. This includes three of the biggest cities in the UK, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Liverpool. ScottishPower retail supplies electricity and gas to over 5m homes and businesses in the UK.

[PiperXX]

Shame on Scottish power for not letting the vulnerable to top up as much as they can afford before the April price hike to enable them to remain on the current rate for as long as possible. Every other company are allowing this apart from this greedy company, shame on you and I hope that any customers who are stuck like me and unable to move to a more charitable company will stick two fingers up at Scottish power as soon as we can move to another supplier.

[standrewpics]

I am not a Scottish power customer, and never have been I would not recommend Scottish power . I recommend Octopus energy for excellent customer service . As I said I have never been a customer of Scottish power, I have had issues with them as I keep getting demands for not payments to my address, addressed to a different person . Non payment for energy at another address . Scottish power seem to be ignoring me, I keep getting letters for non payment even through I have never been a customer of Scottish power . An absolutely rubbish company . Use Octopus Energy everyone I would recommend them.